ESC meeting minutes: 2021-04-15

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Apr 15 14:36:05 UTC 2021


* Present:
    + Stephan, Caolan, Sophie, Michael W, Heiko, Thorsten, Michael S, Olivier, Xisco, Miklos, Cloph, Gabriel, Eike

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 alpha 1 in 2nd week of May
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.3 rc1 tagging this week + branch creation, later today
    + 7.0 status: 7.0.6 rc1 on the week of 19th April
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
       + Fix sorting command in Help pages (ohallot)
    + Helpcontent2
       + Total 274 (+1)
       + Updates and fixes (ohallot, S. Fanning, M Kaganski, Johnny_M,
          S. Horacek,LiberOfficiant)
       + Sorting of Help page contents (ohallot)
       + scriptforge pages (R. Lima, LibreOfficiant)

   + Google Seasons of Doc 2021
      + Awaiting Google (April 16th )

   + Guides
       + Writer Guide 7.1 published
         https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/12/writer-guide-7-1-is-just-out/
       + Progress towards Rel 7.1 of the Guides
       + fast translation of Guides
         https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/02/the-brazilian-community-launches-the-libreoffice-7-0-getting-started-guide-in-portuguese/

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        248(248) (topicUI) bugs open, 220(220) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added       6(-1)    13(-8)    36(-9)     102(-8)
         commented     146(86)   393(89)   910(42)    3868(103)
           removed       1(1)      3(0)     16(2)       28(1)
          resolved      23(12)    51(11)   130(-3)     508(11)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 194 changes in 1 month, and 2377 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 57 changes in 1 month, and 653 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 49 changes in 1 month, and 234 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 43 changes in 1 month, and 394 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 41 changes in 1 month, and 963 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 33 changes in 1 month, and 33 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 32 changes in 1 month, and 218 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 31 changes in 1 month, and 182 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 28 changes in 1 month, and 191 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 26 changes in 1 month, and 373 changes in 1 year

      * New tickets with needsUXEval Apr/06-15

      -> [Bug 141237] Security restrictions not applied while exporting to PDF
                      document
          + likely not our problem, could add document
      -> [Bug  81829] Viewport calculations for .uno:PageUp .uno:PageDown scroll
                      movements are not accurate (comment 28)
          + iterate over whole pages?
      -> [Bug 141668] Unexpected view change after clicking last line of text
                      visible
          + would like some scrolling animation
         [Bug 141666] The page up/page down steps are oddly chosen in Writer
         [Bug 141654] Can't see selected autofilter
         [Bug 141570] Align left/center/right/filled disabled for with image or
                      frame anchored as 'as character' selected
         [Bug 141566] Implement Dark Mode support for Basic Editor
         [Bug 135282] A showcase of HTML import, editing and export bugs in an
                      HTML5 era
         [Bug 133923] File-Export to image only exports text and not chart
         [Bug 136653] Update styles & formatting sidebar when then focus enters
                      the document area
         [Bug  63368] FORMATTING: Images attached to cell get mispositioned when
                      cell above is edited

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 8(+0) import failure, 3(+0) export failures
    + 5 coverity issues
    + 17 ossfuzz issues (down from 58)
     + builds successfully again
     + old fixed issues detected as fixed and closed
     + skipped some slow paths to remove some more timeouts

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.5.2
         + (+453) 1878 1425 1392 1100 358 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.0.3
         + (+560) 4637 4077 4695 5822 7276 8505 10520 8732 6625 4863 452 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.1.2
         + (-242) 7402 7644 8944 8025 5645 2706 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.2.2
         + (+1922) 3968 2046 0
https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/cppu::OInterfaceContainerHelper::disposeAndClear(com::sun::star::lang::EventObject%20const%20&)
+ seems to happen in lot in 7.1, no steps to reproduce yet

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week    1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      69(-5)    134(-2)     135(-3)      142(-2)
               reviews     376(50)   1424(-26)   1702(212)    1734(212)
                merged     315(58)   1325(4)     1673(311)    1673(311)
             abandoned      13(2)      83(8)       89(13)       89(13)
           own commits     236(59)   1018(-32)   3347(-48)   14098(-17)
        review commits      68(4)     427(-26)   1315(-38)    4813(6)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      32(6)       76(4)       79(6)       83(6)
               reviews     894(164)   3322(-30)   4138(668)   4160(670)
                merged      23(4)      136(-14)    179(22)     179(22)
             abandoned       6(-2)      92(4)      101(6)      101(6)
           own commits      41(11)     225(-19)    640(17)    2267(34)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)        0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 250(250)
       total 293(293)   assigned 27(27)   open 240(240)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 146 patches in 1 month, and 752 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 6 patches in 1 month, and 118 patches in 1 year
          Akshit Kushwaha made 4 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 3 patches in 1 month, and 79 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 3 patches in 1 month, and 38 patches in 1 year
          Tomoyuki Kubota made 3 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
          NOGATA, Jun made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Vert D. made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Carmen Bianca Bakker made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Bayram Çiçek made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Olivier Hallot made 202 review comments in 1 month, and 254 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 116 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 98 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 102 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 114 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 80 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 88 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 68 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 68 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 68 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        tdf#131327 double click to edit target in AUTO-REDACT ( Sumit Sahu )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/108420

        tdf#112000: sc_uicalc: Add unittest ( Xisco Fauli )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/109767

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Carmen Bianca Bakker
          Matej Kivader
          Steve Fanning
          Vatsal Mehta
          sary  nasser

* Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -22 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Apr  8 14:03:49 2021
    master linux rel  jobs:  61 ok:  61 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  60 ok:  60 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac rel    jobs: 121 ok: 121 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs: 119 ok: 119 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  94 ok:  94 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs: 101 ok: 101 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  97 ok:  96 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.03 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.35%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 510 ok: 407 ko:  70 fail ratio: 13.73% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  21
    master gerrit plg jobs: 478 ok: 325 ko: 115 fail ratio: 24.06% time for ok: mean:  44 median:  38
    master gerrit win jobs: 521 ok: 372 ko:  97 fail ratio: 18.62% time for ok: mean:  54 median:  54
    master gerrit mac jobs: 521 ok: 393 ko:  94 fail ratio: 18.04% time for ok: mean:  29 median:  26
    master android    jobs: 471 ok: 412 ko:  32 fail ratio:  6.79% time for ok: mean:  20 median:  12
    master gerrit all jobs: 495 ok: 296 ko: 146 fail ratio: 29.49% time for ok: mean:  66 median:  61
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210415.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_i18nlangtag_test_languagetag		gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sc_macros_test		gerrit_mac
      3 CppunitTest_sw_core_frmedt		gerrit_windows
      3 UITest_writer_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_sal_retry_if_failed		gerrit_windows
      4 CppunitTest_sd_import_tests		gerrit_mac
      4 UITest_impress_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 CppunitTest_sd_uiimpress		gerrit_mac
+ rather few builds, also the failure pattern is nothing unusual
+ in terms of failure pattern, pretty good week
+ Hetzner server is not yet online (would be a new one)
   + would reduce the load on windows side
   + replaced by cloud worker for now
   + will run windows, so it will be a fast builder

* l10n (Sophie)
  + business as usual
  + new contributors for Marathi (mr) and Classical Armenian (xcl-AM)

* GSoC 2021 announced (Heiko/Thorsten)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + new ideas are welcome at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
  + new mentors too: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor
  + next step:
    + March 29, 2021 - April 13, 2021: Student Application Period
      + window closed
    + slot request: may 3rd ← next step
      + looking for mentors for good applications
      + will finalize next week
      + Ilmari commented on all proposals
      + if you plan to mentor, please ask for an invite (Thorsten)
      + if straightforward, then can take all mentors into an IRC room / call
      + no need to discuss that here in the ESC call
      + if conflicts, then bring it to the ESC
    + April 13, 2021 - May 17, 2021: Application Review Period
    + May 17, 2021: Student Projects Announced
    + May 17, 2021 - June 7, 2021: Community Bonding
    + June 7, 2021 - August 16, 2021: Coding
    + July 12 - 16, 2021: Evaluations
    + August 16 - 23, 2021: Students Submit Code and Final Evaluations
    + August 23 - 30, 2021: Mentors Submit Final Evaluations
    + August 31, 2021: Results Announced

* QA update (Xisco)
    + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
          https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1661 (+16)
        + enhancements: 224  (+5)
        + needsUXEval: 3 (-9)
        + haveBackTrace: 5 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 17 (+0)
        + documentation:  3 (-1)
        + android:  2 (-2)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  17 (+0)

    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
        None
     Old:
        + Writer document with tables lost data in cells (apparently) replacing with 0
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131025
            + Eike is asking for Writer advice
            + there are some code pointers from Mike K there

       + macOS: Can't Save As after installing language pack on Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132025

           + more info here: “Subject: Budget 2020 proposals and macOS
Catalina
             support / onboarding” on the dev list (Heiko)

        + Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) from
imported
          PDF are reversed, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not behaving
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597

            + Thorsten looking at it
            + old problem, but many duplicates

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Means to modify existing table styles in a dialog
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105933
            + missing feature?

        + It is not possible to work with an older document from LO 6.4 in new LO 7.0, slow perf
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140639
            + already fixed, thanks Caolan

        + Crash: swlo!SwTableNode::DelFrames+0x27:
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141613
            + Daniel? Only in master

     + please take a look at the chart ranges in the ESC bug stats (Miklos)
AI:       + will do (Xisco)

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +161  +8 (-142) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Heiko Tietze            16
       QA Administrators       16
       Xisco Faulí             11
       Timur                   7
       Bartosz                 5
       Justin L                5
       Michael Weghorn         5
       Caolán McNamara         4
       Eike Rathke             4
       V Stuart Foote          4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Xisco Faulí             13
       Regina Henschel         5
       Telesto                 5
       Armin Le Grand          3
       BDF                     3
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
       Olivier Hallot          3
       Rafael Lima             3
       Rizal Muttaqin          3
       Roman Kuznetsov         3

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Xisco Fauli             5
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Justin Luth             4
       Kosiorek, Bartosz       4
       McNamara, Caolán        4
       Weghorn, Michael        4
       Le Grand, Armin         3
       Németh, László          3
       Timur                   3
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             27
       Heiko Tietze            12
       Dieter                  9
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      9
       *UNKNOWN*               5
       Raal                    5
       steve -_-               5
       Timur                   4
       Le Grand, Armin         3
       Nabet, Julien           3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 2/53 -     3 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 0/41 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.3 : 0/54 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.2 : 0/43 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 1/36 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 0/64 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 0/76 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 2/83 -     2 %  (+0)
     old : 6/248 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   +

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           16
        Timur                  4
        Budea, Áron            2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        ksraji85               1
        Weghorn, Michael       1
        Raal                   1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   +

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           16
        Timur                  5
        Budea, Áron            1
        demarthe               1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Justin Luth            1
        ksraji85               1
        Weghorn, Michael       1
        pavlogradski           1
        Raal                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1354(+2) bugs open of 10871(+23) total 13(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           15
        Timur                  2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Budea, Áron            1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Weghorn, Michael       1
        Telesto                1
        Foote, V Stuart        1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 8(+0)
     Calc          - 2(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
     Impress       - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 12(+0)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 436(+8)
     Calc                     - 235(-5)
     Impress                  - 142(-5)
     Writer: docx filter      - 56(+2)
     Draw                     - 52(+1)
     LibreOffice              - 52(-2)
     Crashes                  - 51(+0)
     Borders                  - 46(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 45(+1)
     UI                       - 43(-1)
     Base                     - 33(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 32(+1)
     Chart                    - 28(+1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 27(+1)
     graphics stack           - 27(-1)
     RTL                      - 25(+1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 21(-1)
     filters and storage      - 20(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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